To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]
GEORGE HERBERTA poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
More George Herbert Quotes
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None knows the weight of another’s burden.
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There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.
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It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
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He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
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To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
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Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
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He that burnes most shines most.
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
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He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
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The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
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He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
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It’s no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
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The eye will have his part.
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The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.
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He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
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To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
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God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
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A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.
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To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
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I envy no man’s nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
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An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
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France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
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